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Football

Public-service broadcaster the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation agreed a sponsorship deal with mobile telecommunications company MTC which has helped it fund the acquisition of the rights for the 2012…
Football

Broadcast income represented 26.8 per cent of the record €1.942 billion ($2.466 billion) collective revenue for German Bundesliga clubs in the 2010-11 season.
Football

Foot Plus, French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus’s pay-television football channel, will close at the end of the 2011-12 season, according to l’Equipe. T
Tennis

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, acquired rights for Davis Cup tennis in a two-year deal, covering 2012 and 2013, with the International Tennis Federation
Baseball

The prospect of a significant increase in the local media rights value of MLB baseball team the Los Angeles Dodgers boosted the minimum asking price for acquiring the franchise, set at $1.5 billion (€1.1
Hockey

Argentinian state-owned broadcaster Canal 7 acquired rights for the International Hockey Federation’s women’s Champions Trophy, which will take place in Rosario, Argentina from January 28 to February 5.
Football

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has entered into an exclusive negotiating period with Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera for live Ligue 1 rights, eliminating…
Football

English Premier League football will be broadcast live on free-to-air television in the UK for the first time next month as part of a promotion by pay-television broadcaster ESPN, which is making its channels…
Football

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired rights for the domestic football league cup, the Coupe de la Ligue, in a four-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2015-16.
Basketball

German sports broadcaster Sport1 is facing competition from three other broadcasters for the rights for the Basketball Bundesliga, the domestic basketball league